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用Lyman $α$森林和z=2.4的星系互相关探测大尺度电离背景涨落

Probing Large Scale Ionizing Background Fluctuation with Lyman $α$ Forest and Galaxy Cross-correlation at z=2.4

Heyang Long, Christopher M. Hirata

摘要:

在大尺度上,总银河系紫外背景(UVB)的振幅受两个因素的影响。首先,由于中性星系际介质的吸收,它在比UVB光子的平均自由程大的尺度上自然衰减。第二,宇宙中存在着离散的、稀有的电离源,它们发射出UVB光子,从而增强了局部的UVB振幅。因此,对于像Lyman- $α$森林谱这样对UVB振幅敏感的宇宙学探测器来说,电离源成簇引起的涨落是影响Lyman- $α$通量传输的重要因素,并在这些大尺度下的Lyman- $α$通量功率谱上留下印记。在这项工作中,我们利用的辐射转移模型,参数化的UVB源分布的偏置$b_{\rm j}$和散粒噪声$\overline{n}_{\rm j}$。以DESI Lyman-$α$森林巡天和罗马空间望远镜发射线星系巡天为例,通过Lyman- $α$森林巡天和星系巡天的互相关估计了该模型的约束条件。我们显示了检测灵敏度的改善UVB参数从不相交的DESI+罗马调查策略的最大重叠。我们还表明,两个电离源参数的简并可以打破通过增加重叠的调查面积。我们的研究结果激励调查策略更致力于探测UVB的大规模波动。

英文摘要:

The amplitude of the metagalactic ultraviolet background (UVB) at large-scales is impacted by two factors. First, it naturally attenuates at scales larger than mean-free-path of UVB photons due to the absorption by neutral intergalactic medium. Second, there are discrete and rare ionizing sources distributing in the Universe, emitting the UVB photons, and thus enhancing the local UVB amplitude. Therefore, for cosmological probe that is sensitive to the UVB amplitude and capable of detecting the large scale like Lyman-$α$ forest spectrum, the fluctuation due to the clustering of ionizing sources becomes a significant factor for Lyman-$α$ flux transmission and leave imprints on Lyman-$α$ flux power spectrum at these large scales. In this work, we make use of a radiative transfer model that parametrizes the UVB source distribution by its bias $b_{\rm j}$ and shot noise $\overline{n}_{\rm j}$. We estimate the constraints on this model through the cross-correlation between Lyman-$α$ forest survey and galaxy survey, using the DESI Lyman-$α$ forest survey and the Roman Space Telescope emission line galaxy survey as an example. We show the detection sensitivity improvement for UVB parameters from disjoint to maximal overlap of DESI+Roman survey strategy. We also show that the degeneracy of two ionizing source parameters can be broken by increasing the overlapping survey area. Our results motivate survey strategies more dedicated to probe the UVB large-scale fluctuations.

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